National Testing in Schools

An Australian assessment

Bob Lingard, Greg Thompson, Sam Sellar, Bob Lingard, Greg Thompson, Sam Sellar

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781138961647
• eBook ISBN: 9781317333678
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Over the last two decades, large-scale national, or provincial, standardised testing has become prominent in the schools of many countries around the globe. National Testing in Schools: An Australian Assessment draws on research to consider the nature of national testing and its multiple effects, including:

• media responses and constructions such as league tables of performance
• pressures within school systems and on schools
• effects on the work and identities of principals and teachers
• and impacts on the experience of schooling for many young people, including those least advantaged.

Using Australia as the case site for global concerns regarding national testing, this book will be an invaluable companion for education researchers, teacher educators, teacher education students and teachers globally.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of Contributors
• Series editors’ preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 National Testing from an Australian Perspective
• 2 What National Testing Data can Tell us
• 3 The Performative Politics of NAPLAN and Myschool
• 4 Questioning the Validity of the Multiple Uses of NAPLAN Data
• 5 Local Experiences, Global Similarities Teacher perceptions of the impacts of national testing
• 6 NAPLAN and Student Wellbeing Teacher perceptions of the impact of NAPLAN on students
• 7 Literacy Leadership and Accountability Practices Holding onto ethics in ways that count
• 8 Contesting and Capitalising on NAPLAN
• 9 Understanding the Politics of Categories in Reporting National Test Results
• 10 Students at Risk and NAPLAN The collateral damage
• 11 NAPLAN, Achievement Gaps and Embedding Indigenous Perspectives in Schooling Disrupting the decolonial option
• 12 Disadvantaged Students’ Voices on National Testing The submersion of NAPLAN’s formative potential
• 13 Exploring Children’s Lived Experiences of NAPLAN
• 14 NAPLAN and the Problem Frame Exploring representations of NAPLAN in the print media, 2010 and 2013
• 15 Negotiating with the Neighbours Balancing different accountabilities across a cluster of regional schools
• 16 The Life of Data Evolving national testing
• Index